Thaxted Studio

Richard Legge graduated from Norwich School of Art with a first honours degree in Graphic Design specialising in Photography in 1995. He then assisted several professional photographers in London before getting his first big break with a portrait commission for Vanity Fair magazine. Since then Richard has continued to photograph actors, musicians, and sports personalities for Vanity Fair, Vogue, The Telegraph, The Guardian plus Landscape commissions for clients such as Musto and Yamaha. Richard’s passion outside of commercial photography is taking landscape imagery using traditional techniques. Eschewing modern digital cameras and photoshop post-production, he uses a traditional wooden 5”x 4” large format field camera and transparency film. Due to the cost and time involved with this process, the majority of the images are a ‘one off’ rather than one of several attempts, as in nature photography, all the elements must be aligned before he decides to press the shutter. Richard attempts to capture a moment in time, an image the viewer can relate a feeling or emotion to as opposed to a ‘scene’ in the traditional sense. He is fascinated by the most basic requirement of photography which is natural light, composition and how it can create both a sense of calm and tranquillity or passion and spirit. Joanna Legge graduated from Norwich School of Art with a honours degree in Graphic Design specialising in Illustration in 1995. She then worked in London as a Designer and later an Art Director in magazine layout for various Publishing companies. Most of her design work is client based, producing magazines for clientele such as;
Harrods Aviation, The Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, CNN, Aviva Premiership Rugby, and Intercontinental Hotels. Joanna has had numerous illustrations published whilst working as a designer, but it has only been recently that she has begun to draw again for her own pleasure. Her inspiration mainly comes from her love of nature and the ancient relationship that we have with it. Delving into our folk stories, songs and imagery has thrown up a stimulating collection of resources. She also has a great love of literature which started at a young age, and will always continue to be a major way of firing her imagination. Joanna’s drawings are created in pen and ink in the stly of pointillism. Although some of the works have a gouache wash or flat colour laid down first.